Notices by Mr. Q The Pizza Demon (radicalrobit@laserdisc.party)

@Aleums @zorotl They forgot to include the got dang pedal in the image

"We can light things on fire and demand action and find sneaky, smart ways to achieve what we want. It will be difficult, maybe even impossible, to cobble together a new system. But the old system is obsolete. We can destroy what's left and build something else in its place."

https://defector.com/the-old-rules-are-for-losers

Fix your shit, Andromeda

We are only getting the slightest peek at how absurdly stupid this country is going to get over the next 4 years

case in point

"Corporate culture needs to be more masculine"

Economists of course have blamed the covid pandemic for tru value shutting down due to economic headwinds or whatever. because they're not nearly as big as lowes or home depot to absorb the losses. However Ace Hardware is set up exactly the same way Tru Value used to be set up. Each store was independently owned but they paid into the same national structure to be able to buy stuff in bulk at the same prices as the big box stores. And Ace Hardware is still thriving.

Now I ain't no big city chicago economist. But if one national cooperatively owned hardware store is still doing just fine, while the other national cooperatively owned hardware store sold out to private equity 8 years ago and is now closing down, I'd probably blame private equity for the reason it's closing down.

wild how true value is going out of business despite being in business for 75 years. I'm sure it has nothing to do with selling itself to a private equity firm in 2018 instead of continuing to run as a cooperative. Probably just a coincidence they managed to survive just fine for 68 years and then 7 years after selling out to private equity, they're gonna be gone.

happy holidays!

@Aleums I'm not 100% sure it qualifies as meta but I remember it being a big deal because it was during what was effectively the honeymoon phase and it was when website boy added a trebuchet emojo so everyone could say fuck terfs and it was a big deal at the time

"TCL said it expects to sell 43 million televisions this year. To augment the revenue from its TV sales, it has created a free TV service called TCL+, which is supported by targeted advertising. A few months ago, TCL announced the creation of the TCL Film Machine, which is a studio that is creating AI-generated films that will run on TCL+."

https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/

wow this sucks shit

"I am watching films that were made for TCL, the largest TV manufacturer on Earth as part of a pilot program designed to normalize AI movies and TV shows for an audience that it plans to monetize explicitly with targeted advertising and whose internal data suggests that the people who watch its free television streaming network are too lazy to change the channel. I know this is the plan because TCL’s executives just told the audience that this is the plan."

"Catherine Zhang, TCL’s vice president of content services and partnerships, then explained to the audience that TCL’s streaming strategy is to “offer a lean-back binge-watching experience” in which content passively washes over the people watching it. “Data told us that our users don’t want to work that hard,” she said. “Half of them don’t even change the channel.”'

look at this bullshit on amazon. I'm no fool, fake amazon company seller. you can show this being a "vacuum" with "cleaning accessories" all you want but I know a dick sucking machine when I see one.

Uh huh and then what happened

the only two photos the pigs released of the shooter don't even show his face. just a white guy in a black hoodie from behind/side.

have you seen this white man in a black hoodie wearing black/white shoes and riding a bike with a backpack? oh you have? literally everywhere?

New christian fascist to block just dropped at AE @ federate.net. They're the admin of their instance so just nuke the whole thing.

#fediblock

52 Democrats are so hell bent on supporting israel in its genocide on the Palestinians that they voted in favor of allowing the Treasury Secretary unfettered power to label any non-profit as "terrorist supporting" even though there's an incoming trump admin that will obviously abuse it for far more than just anti-arab measures.

https://www.jezebel.com/house-democrats-could-help-trump-shut-down-abortion-funds